1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter.

1973 –Robert Anton Wilson, the occultist/philosopher, either achieved contact with extraterrestrials from Sirius or started a long-term period of having wild hallucinations, depending on which way you want to look at it.

worth checking out • the trailer for Lasse Hallström’s upcoming film the Hoax is up on the net. Richard Gere plays Clifford Irving stiring up a fantastic media frenzy in the 70s selling his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a publishing house.

reminder • back to school sales mean stocking up on erasers and cheap brushes for gluing.in from Helen Crow @ Pogo’s Place